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Geneva In “The Spy Who Loved Me,” James Bond takes his sports machine underwater, swaps his wheels for fins and fires a projectile that knocks a pursuing helicopter out of the sky.

Roger Moore’s efforts as the iconic British spy may be hard to jibe, but a Swiss company says it has made a fomite that truly can change state into a submarine - though without the arms.

The conception car developer Rinspeed calls its “sQuba” the first real submersible auto.

Unlike military fomites, which can only drive easy on a lakebed, Rinspeed says its motorcar can furnish a stable “flight” at a deepness of 30 human foots.

“For three decennaries I have essayed to ideate how it power be possible to make a motorcar that can wing underwater,” says Frank Rinderknecht, Rinspeed’s 52-year-old CEO and an avowed James Bond fan. “Now we have got this dream come true.”

The machine will be unveiled at next month’s Geneva Auto Show.

Rinderknecht says it is difficulted to get a motorcar watertight and pressure-resistant enough to be manoeuvrable underwater.

“The real challenge, notwithstanding, was to make a submersible auto that moves like a Fish in water,” he appended.

Working with technology specialists, Rinspeed distant the burning engine from an athletics car and supplanted it with various electrical motors.

Three are situated in the rear, with one supplying propulsion on land and the early driving the gaoler for submersed motoring.

Riders will be capable to maintain breathing submerged through an incorporated tank of tight air alike to what is utilised in Aqua diving.

But they will get wet.

“For refuge reasons, we have constructed the fomite as an open motorcar so that the residents can acquire out chop in an pinch,” Rinderknecht told.

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